"All that is great, all that is useful and all that is lasting in history was created by instinct. All the destructions and all the disasters were engendered by rational theory."
-Francisco Antonio Encina
When I created the “Anarchonomicon Real Banned Book List” (5th Edition coming soon!), there were several Immediate rabbit holes to go down in follow up posts….
The first Rabbit hole, of course, was how Holocaust “revisionism”, and Holocaust revisionism alone, immediately jumps out as the ONLY major issue of historical debate and political struggle, to both be heavily censored out of a claimed moral concern (something not done for works either denying or hyper-inflating the deaths of Stalin, or Mao, or American Empire), to the point that “Holocaust Denial” and only “Holocaust Denial” is a crime of historical belief in Europe, Russia, and the Anglo-sphere.
And yet despite that there are hundreds of books (See the full revisionist Bibliography at the Institute of Historical Review), many by people formerly of high academic esteem, attacking and pulling threads on this one historical narrative. Again there is nothing of the Sort even for works such as the crimes of Lenin or Stalin, which you’d think would be comparable.
This unique, literally religious, significance of the Holocaust ( “Holocaust Theology” is something you can get a PhD and Tenure in) immediately jumps out at you once you start assembling lists of banned books.
Basically no one feels the need to write books denying the Genocide of the Native Americans, the bombing of Hiroshima, or atrocities against the Vietnamese (Crimes Americans and the American government actually participated in that you'd naively think their alliance system would be more concerned with censoring)… And no one feels the need to hound and imprison them for denying it if they do.
Addendum, Real Banned Books List : The Bizarre Plausibility of Holocaust... "Revisionism"
Contrary to what you might think: the Holocaust is shockingly hard to prove.
Another Rabbit Hole, And somehow the SINGLE MOST SUCCESSFUL ARTICLE in Anarchonomicon history in terms of readership, likes, and actual paid subscribers (despite being really a short little shitpost about sex)…
Was John Norman’s GOR franchise, which in the 80s, 90s and 2000s was effectively banned from bookstores, libraries, and even online booksellers... Because it was a rapey Scif-Fantasy romantasy/bondage/erotica book.
It was indeed in many respects the originator of the genre… But John Norman (IRL Philosophy Professor John Frederick Lange Jr) included long philosophical ramblings on the nature of relations between the sexes, and the dark truth of what women really desire in the deepest part of their loines… That seemingly, atleast in some instances, was so painfully tantalizing arousing, yet too horrible to comprehend that feminist activists had to go on crusades against the works campaigning against bookstores that still sold them…
And given the success of my article on the Matter… It is still that tantilizing:
The Banned Fantasy Novels Feminists Hate
“The diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects:
the look of being chained.”
- Ayn Rand
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But these are not the Rabbit holes I was most interested in… Or which became one of my obsessions…
The Most Banned Books In History
The most interesting Rabbit hole on the Real banned book list, at least by my estimation, was the the subject of Political Science Professor, General, and Military Dictator of Chile: Augusto Pinochet, and the seemingly complete disappearance of his books, both in Spanish, and in their official English Translation.
Addendum: The Most Banned Book I’ve Ever Found
Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten.
- George Orwell
Terrorist manuals that will land you EIGHT YEARS in prison in Western Countries such as the UK can be found, the full illegal pdf complete with bomb making instructions, on First Page Google search results.
WARNING Don’t click this link if you’re in the UK. It’s the PDF. (yahoo search, first hit)
the Memoirs of ISIS headchoppers are not hard to find… Even works by literal serial killers are not that disappeared.
HITLER’S SECOND BOOK… The unpublished book authored by the devil himself, can be found online in PDF RIGHT HERE.
Along with several other books said to be authored by various literal Satan(s) throughout history. I’m still searching for a book like in the 9th Gate, rumored to be authored by the Literal Lucifer… But I actually think I might have found the book Where someone first expressed the sentiment “Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven”… He was referring to an impoverished village in Switzerland.
“I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”
-Julius Caesar, (In Plutarch’s Parallel Lives)
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But The works of a Head of State, one of the Most famous in Latin American history… Were Just GONE.
Thousands of English Copies of Augusto Pinochet’s 4 Volume memoirs “A Journey through a Life” had been printed… And seemingly completely disappeared.
Such that even discovering such books had ever existed were an extraordinary challenge in 2024.
If one searched “Pinochet Memoirs” in Amazon or Google they’d encounter works by communists like “Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Memoir”, “Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter”, “I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975” “At the Edge of the World: Memories of a Judge Who Indicted Pinochet” and “Memoirs of a cyclist who disappeared during the Pinochet Era”
There is an entire book “Pinochet in Piccadilly” just whinging about Thatcher’s friendliness with Pinochet.
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And yet the Actual works of the man, or the fact that they had been officially translated into English Was entirely gone.
Not on Archive, not on the Dark Libraries like Annas Archives, not in google search… And not in university libraries even.
I searched University websites and JSTOR… Not In the Entirety of Canada, The Oxford or Cambridge Systems, Seemingly the entirety of New York city… Nowhere except 1 or 2 obscure universities in US Midwest or Australia could I find a single copy of a Single Volume of the 4 volume memoirs… To even confirm they existed.
I had found the faintest low resolution Google image search results linking to now defunct Spanish language Facebook posts, and dead link websites…
But Even hammering down the publication history was a challenge…
Whether they had only been published in Spanish as “Camino Recorrido” (which themselves were nowhere to be found)… whether one or two volumes ONCE had been translated into English but then not the subsequent volumes???
I Only had ONE IMAGE. ONE. That Showed ONE VOLUME with an English title.
This was I had to work on… And no Idea if they had all indeed been translated if all 4 volumes in English still even existed.
You see I had a VERY good inkling of how these memoirs had disappeared.
Chile you see, much like Spain post-Franco… Almost immediately fell under intensive political influence by the Communists and their descendants immediately after the right wing dictator fell.
Catholic Dictators, despite what communists will tell you about atrocities and mass killings… Are almost overwhelmingly FORGIVING of open treason, conspiracy with foreign powers, joining armed factions, and generally being an open enemy of Man, God, and Civilization… Not just in word, but in open Armed Deed.
The Reason we endlessly hear about the “crimes” of Franco or Pinochet against the poor suffering innocent socialists… but not say, the Weimar Republic against Rosa and Karl, or Interwar Poland’s brutality against Polish communists during the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921), or Pre-Anschluss Austria, or what the Finns did to Finnish Communists during the Winter War… Is because almost all the communists in those societies were killed or exiled at one point or another… Very few went on to get careers in government or academia once the mean dictator fell were they could pass laws against “Denial” of “crimes” against treasonous socialist revolutionaries.
Meanwhile… despite dropping communists out of helicopters over shark infested water… Pinochet only ever killed 3-8 thousand… In the middle of a near civil war. Then let the rest live out their lives knowing they had lost…
So most of his enemies survived to publish their Memoirs about being disabled lesbian bicyclists under “The Dictator”… Until one day, somehow, Democracy returned.
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So I knew what had happened to Pinochet’s memoirs… across South American, American, Canadian, British, and seemingly the entire university system… Communists of the more daring sort had stollen and dumpstered them, but even more commonly Left-leaning librarians, one at a time had quietly ‘mislabelled’ the books, and then thrown them in a pile of books for shredding.
No group people have ever destroyed more books than librarians. Like school teachers, they’re one of those nice sounding groups of people, til you apply any scrutiny and realize they’re all ideologically captured, exist largely to destroy the thing you’d naively think they exist to protect and, in my moderate conservative opinion, deserve to be lined up and shot to the last.
You should be trolling and buying up things at bookstores if you ever want to hold onto a work… Somehow my local library today has entire aisles of Monster fucker erotica, yet all the local history books that I remember occupying shelves when I was a kid… All the nice old regimental histories that had been there since the local regiments themselves had donated the copies in the 1950s? Gone. Not even on the library interloan system… I have to troll thrift stores located in barns to find a former library copy (with the library card slot still glued to the inside of the cover) of a Gilded hardcover history of the Grey-Simcoe Foresters or the Lincoln and Welland Regiment… With a “For Destruction” stamped on the first page.
I have ordered off Ebay, for $10 Canadian, an Arthur Rackham illustrated English Edition complete Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner… With a “Pittsburg Public Library” card slot in the cover.
See also the book “Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper”.
Again they do this to the books written by the most celebrated Composers in history, and about the “Good Guys” of history… This is what they do to the histories of Canadian lads who stormed the Beaches of Normandy, or fought the “Little Stalingrad” against the Nazis in the streets of Ortona, and the local histories they wrote about their counties when they got home…
What do you think they do to their enemies?
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It was very obvious to me that the English Translations of Pinochet’s books, if they did exist, probably had a limited run of a few thousand for inclusion in military libraries and universities across the west… And then very quickly started to be destroyed whenever ideological librarians or some enterprising socialist student or Chilean international student with a partisan itch to scratch decided to engage in “revolutionary struggle” the classical way… by shredding books.
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Now in 2024…two years ago, merely discovering such a work existed was a nightmare.
And my essay on the matter laying this out was a plead for anyone in Chile, or anyone with any access to discover them… As far as I can tell, no digital copy had ever existed til that point, and the original 90s English translations might have been completely destroyed, or may be down to single digit copies that survive.
(seriously if you can find a complete physical set in your university library… Steal them. DO IT! They might be worth hundreds of thousands by the time all is said and done, and the commie librarians won’t even investigate… Just gladly mark them missing and remove them from the system. They’ll be far safer in your hands than floating in library interloan, waiting for some administrator to pulp them).
However once the article went out immediately we had leads…
I was in personal contact with some of the people who first found and digitized the Spanish Language editions of the 4 book Camino Recordio which is now up on the various dark libraries…
But the english language editions were still impossible to find, as were Pinochet’s “Geopolitics” his textbook he had published whilst a Professor of Political Science and which taught generations of Chilean Military Officers…
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Until now.
Sadly several of the editions are not the original translations but the result of AI Translations.
But for the VERY FIRST TIME in history there now exist English Language PDFs of the Memoirs of one of the most controversial World Leaders of the second half of the 20th century… Along with an English Translation of his Textbook Geopolitics
Sadly only the First volume of his memoirs is the Classic 90s Translation… The others are the result of Machine Translation.
But this is the first time this was even possible and if you do not Grab these PDFs off archive NOW!!! before some publisher can make a copyright complaint, you are a fool.
A Journey Through Life; Memoirs Of A Soldier (1991) (Volume 1)
https://archive.org/details/a-journey-through-life-memoirs-of-a-soldier-1991-augusto-pinochet-ugarte
A Journey Through Life; Memoirs Of A Soldier (1991) (Volume 2)
https://archive.org/details/pinochet-a-journey-through-life-book-2-english
A Journey Through Life; Memoirs Of A Soldier (1993) (Volume 3, book 1)
https://archive.org/details/pinochet-a-journey-through-life-book-3-vol-1-english
A Journey Through Life; Memoirs Of A Soldier (1994) (Volume 3, book 2)
https://archive.org/details/pinochet-a-journey-through-life-book-3-vol-2-english
Geopolitics Pinochet Fourth Edition English (1984)
https://archive.org/details/geopolitics-pinochet-fourth-edition-english
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Sadly I still cannot find the English language edition of Pinochet’s “El dia decisivo: 11 de septiembre de 1973”
(Yes 9/11 was the date Communism was stopped in Chile and a second Cuba was prevented from founding itself in South America.)
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But other than that this is a great victory! One of the Great Dictators and Philosophers of Anti-communist struggle… Alive and ruling within living memory… Brought back from the dead to teach us all his secrets.
Start up the rotors my friends…
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"No group people have ever destroyed more books than librarians. Like school teachers, they’re one of those nice sounding groups of people, til you apply any scrutiny and realize they’re all ideologically captured, exist largely to destroy the thing you’d naively think they exist to protect and, in my moderate conservative opinion, deserve to be lined up and shot to the last."
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